Monday, 9 February 2015

Generic Mailboxes and Enterprise Vault

Folder Level access can be a bit trick in Enterprise Vault. Depending on how your environment is set up you may run into this issue.Issue Non owner’s users who operate shared mailboxes are unable to open Enterprise Vault Items. Users will see the following error “You do not have access to this vault.” although they have folder level access to the mailbox and are able to see the EV item.Cause Default or Anonymous permissions have been used in order to grant the users access to the mailbox folder. ResolutionGrant each user permissions to a mailbox folder. Users will then receive access to Enterprise Vault Items.

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Don’t let a offline exchange server affect
your scripts!!!

I’m sure you like most of you have being remote power shelling for some time but
if you are running an on prem solution this might be worth adding to your
scripts. In short a simple loop based on a static array.

Such a loop will assist with completing a retry in the event that the remote session is unable to be created to the exchange server.

Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Does Session Affinity really make Sense!

Quick post dedicated for
my wife who is a word/grammar guru…

In the IT world there is
so many things that we say or pick up that creates you might say a new sub language
even possibly IT street language. I wonder if I could register a new creole for
the IT industry… But does it often make sense…. I know many will say that it doesn’t
really matter.

Session Affinity has been defined as:

Most servers use the
term "Session Affinity" to indicate that within a cluster of servers,
requests from the same client always get routed back to the same server. This
eliminates the need to replicate session data like the Http Session or Stateful
Session Beans.

Implementations vary,
but is usually base on some kind of routing scheme that identifies the client
by IP address or a browser cookie.

Affinity Some seven hundred
years ago, affinity meant
“relation by marriage.” By extension, the proper use of affinity involves mutuality. But
that sense of mutual attraction is often absent in contemporary uses of affinity. An online search reveals
many examples such as these:“She
always had an affinity for growing fruit.” “I have an affinity for vintage
chairs.” “My friend has an affinity for making things out of cardboard.” In
these examples, “growing fruit,” “vintage chairs,” and “making things out of
cardboard” are passive elements, not active components in a relationship.
Better to say “a talent for
growing fruit,” “a fondness
for vintage chairs,” “a flair for
making things out of cardboard.”

In the examples above, affinity
is followed by the preposition for.
But in formal English, the phrase affinityfor is despised. The editor
Theodore M. Bernstein advised writers to “discard for” and instead“use
between, with, or sometimes to.”

Here are three sentences that use affinity
correctly: “There is an affinity between
the Irish and the Italians that can be hard to explain.” “Some people have a
natural affinity with children.”
“Two vaccines containing native proteins with affinity to porcine transferrin were
tested.”

Biography

For the past number of years I have been busy in the Microsoft Exchange, Lync and Office 365 Space. We have been able to complete some really awesome and unique things which might be of some value to the Exchange and Lync Community.
Anyway that's the hope....